Chapter 424: Bear humiliation and bear heavy burdens!
The masked man is still alive.
For many who have been following the incident for a long time, this news is enough.
“It’s good to be alive!”
In Coral City, many members of the North Wind Story Club breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts were finally at ease.
Ever since they learned that Su Xia went to the south, they have not relaxed for a moment and have been searching for the latest news about him almost every day. During this period, everyone's emotions have fluctuated several times because of him.
"Hmph, when Mask comes back and I get the potion, I'm going to kill that damn pharmacist!" Yuan Hua clenched his fists and said fiercely.
"I heard that the pharmacist received death threats recently and rarely shows up in public." Yang Liang said.
"Haha, the moment he sold out his master for fame, he should have thought of the current situation!"
Coral City has been relatively calm recently, with nothing major happening.
There are a few small things.
For example, the main building of the pharmacist school invested and established by Su Xia has been completed.
On the other hand, the school invested by Sijidao is also under slow construction, but its progress is far slower than Suxia's project.
During this period, the pharmacy did receive several death threats.
The contents of these letters are roughly the same, expressing dissatisfaction with Su Xia for betraying his father and threatening Su Xia, saying that his head will soon be off his neck.
The people who wrote these letters were probably those who had been rescued and treated by Dad and had received his kindness.
In response to this, Yu Tuo issued a special order to increase the defense force around the pharmacy several times.
The pharmacy announced that Su Xia was in seclusion writing teaching materials, but other than that, there was no other comment.
"Humph! What do you mean by seclusion to write textbooks? You are obviously scared. You are afraid of having your head chopped off, so you are hiding in the pharmacy and dare not show up!"
The outside world has a similar understanding of the pharmacy's reaction.
Retreating to write a book is mostly fake, hiding away to save your life is real!
Lan Bafu and Hong Bafu were concentrating on refining medicines, hoping to break through to the fifth-level pharmacist as soon as possible, and they were too lazy to argue with people from the outside world.
Since Su Xia is not in a hurry anyway, why should the two of them be in a hurry?
"Brother Su is so calm that he used the death threat letter as a cushion for the corner of the table."
The two Bafu were quite impressed by Su Xia's indifference.
They just didn't know that the person they had been meeting during this period was just a narcissistic puppet left behind by Su Xia before she left, and he had no fear at all.
During this period, the two of them spent their days refining medicine and keeping an eye on the movements of the masked man.
Every time there is good news, both of them will be excited for a while.
"Break out of the encirclement again!"
“As expected of him!”
The two men have regarded the mysterious masked man as their idol, and they wish they could follow him personally, fighting all the way from the south to the north and making a name for themselves.
Even the two of them knew the news, so naturally the rest of the ordinary residents in the city also knew about it.
After all, the masked man first appeared in Coral City, and the residents of this city paid much more attention to him than people in other cities.
Some people regard him as a city hero, while others think he is destroying the existing peace.
The latter was very dissatisfied with the performance of the Northern Sailing Club this time: "Did the Sailing Club really let the masked man escape? What were they thinking?"
"What do you mean by 'let him escape'?" Someone immediately retorted, "The masked man escaped by force!"
"You're wrong. I heard that there was no action at all. The sea was calm. When the masked man passed by, the Northern Sailing Club clearly knew about it, but there was no reaction at all..."
In the process of repeated dissemination, the truth of the matter will always be distorted and a lot of false information will be added artificially.
At first, people thought that the masked man had fought his way out, forcibly breaking through the encirclement of the Northern Sailing Club and carving a bloody path in the sea.
This kind of forced escape is very consistent with the character of the masked man.
But as time passed, true and false information from all sides began to converge, and people discovered that things were not what they thought.
After comparing information from multiple sources, many people were surprised to find that the masked man seemed to have been released intentionally?
Why did the Northern Sailing Club do this?
Don’t they have the courage to confront the masked man head-on?
Or is it that there are conflicts among them, and some people are against intercepting the masked man, so they let him go?
"Hahaha, Northern Sailing Club, this time you ended up losing more than you gained!" On the online platform with the most traffic, the captain of the Fiery Suicide Squad appeared with a golden account and laughed mercilessly.
Just by looking at that line of words, you can feel his current joy and happiness.
"Northern Sailing Club, don't you want to join the Mechanical Clan? How come you can't even do the first task the Mechanical Clan gave you?"
The leader of the Wilderness Survey Team also showed up, also using a gold account certified by the platform. He didn't use any aliases or anything like that, and directly used his real identity to mock the Sailing Club.
"Where are the people in the club? Why is no one saying anything? Are they all dead?" asked the captain of the Fiery Suicide Squad.
"Haha, maybe they are in a hurry to explain today's events to the mechanical tribe. How can they have the mood to read news from the outside world?" The Wilderness Survey Team replied.
"That's right. Let me think about it. That old fellow surnamed Wang and that mean-looking woman named Mu Liu are probably kneeling in front of the mechanical race and begging for mercy. Tsk tsk..."
"Haha, what a nice day today!"
"Yes, I'm happy today!"
"happy……"
The two of them actually started chatting, each speaking a word, without considering the feelings of the Northern Sailing Club at all.
As a large force, they have the confidence to do so. Not to mention speaking on the Internet, they can even take direct action against the Northern Sailing Club offline!
The appearance of these two people completely brought the discussion about the northern waters to a climax and almost created an event for nationwide discussion.
This incident was too strange, especially the behavior of the Northern Sailing Club, which remains puzzling.
And the weirder something is, the more worth discussing.
At the end of the discussion, someone actually raised a topic that is worth pondering:
[Could the Northern Sailing Club be supported by Dragon City or Bear City, and is an undercover force specifically designed to infiltrate the Mechanical Clan?]
As soon as this topic came up, many people's eyes lit up, as if they had discovered a new world.
"I see……"
"Could it be true?"
Why did the Northern Sailing Club let the masked man go?
With their strength, even if they really can't stop them, it should be okay to delay them for a while, right?
But according to the existing information, they did not delay at all. Instead, they allowed the masked man to leave. It was a full half hour later before they notified the mechanical clan.
Everyone had thought of many possibilities for this kind of behavior, but none of them could understand it.
But as soon as this topic came up, people felt their minds suddenly become clear and they saw a path that they had never imagined.
"When I think about it this way, everything seems to be normal."
"If they are really undercover, it would be reasonable for them to let the masked man go. No wonder..."
This bizarre speculation once again sparked a topic of discussion, with more and more people discussing it. Headlines about "undercover" appeared again and again, and spread to the world through various rumors.
"I wrongly accused them before. Alas, I scolded them a few days ago. I didn't expect they were undercover agents." Someone sighed.
"From ancient times to the present, undercover agents have to endure a lot of infamy."
“I blamed them wrongly.”
"The Northern Sailing Club is really enduring humiliation!"
Bear humiliation and bear heavy burdens!
As soon as these four words came out, the topic was instantly brought to another level.
The discussion about whether the Northern Sailing Club was an undercover agent suddenly surged, and some people even began to associate them with the masked man.
You know, the masked man was in the southern waters at the time and had many directions to choose from to break out.
He could stay in the southern waters, slowly deal with the mechanical race, and finally find an opportunity to land from the coasts of several surrounding cities.
You can also go to the southwest waters and enter the southwest mountainous area through the coastline there.
This was also what many people previously believed to be the most likely breakthrough direction.
As long as they entered the southwestern mountainous area, even if the mechanical clan's search force increased several times, it would be difficult to find him in the vast mountains.
Of course, he could also choose to head towards the southeast sea. In the southeast sea, there were thousands of islands. By crossing these islands and continuing to the southeast, he could see a smaller continent.
That continent does not belong to the three major continents of this world, and is often only regarded as a super large island, but it is enough for Su Xia to survive and get supplies.
In addition, there are many other options.
But he chose the North.
Could it be that... before this , he had been in contact with the Northern Sailing Club and knew that he could break through from there?
"Yes, that should be it!"
Some people suddenly realized, patted their heads, and felt that they had guessed the truth, and couldn't help but feel complacent.
As a result, in many discussion groups, the Northern Sailing Club was labeled as "undercover" and "bearing humiliation".
"We all owe them an apology!"
"Those misunderstandings we had during those years..."
Topics of emotion emerged one after another, like mushrooms after a rain, sweeping across all sections in an instant.
During this period, some people with sharp thinking continued to analyze according to this idea and came to a conclusion that was amazing.
[ Could it be possible that the masked man never went to the North? ]
Some people analyzed that if the Northern Sailing Club was really an undercover agent, then they would very likely release false information.
Make the mechanical tribe mistakenly believe that the masked man went to the north , thus shifting the focus of the search to the north.
In this way, the masked monster who is still in the south has a chance.
…
At this moment, in a wilderness in the north, in a ruined city caused by war, in a dilapidated building.
A middle-aged man sat in front of the monitor, looking at the topics about "undercover" on the topic list, and couldn't help but clapping his thighs and laughing, laughing so hard that he fell backwards.
"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter!"
"If the people from the Northern Sailing Club knew that they were used as undercover agents, they probably wouldn't even be able to cry now, right?"
This middle-aged man has a strong build. In the north where the temperature is close to zero degrees, he is only wearing a military green short-sleeved shirt, as if he cannot feel the cold outside.
On his muscular shoulder, there is a tattoo that looks like a burning flame.
This man is none other than the captain of the Fiery Suicide Squad, Zhang Deshuai.
At the same time, in another wilderness, Captain Liu of the Legend Investigation Team also laughed so hard that tears were almost coming out of his eyes.
It was normal for ordinary people to think that they might be undercover agents because they didn't know the details of the Northern Sailing Club .
But the Flame Suicide Squad and the Legend Investigation Team, both large forces, knew the Northern Sailing Club's background very well and knew that they were not undercover at all.
"Haha, why am I so happy today? It's worth having a couple more drinks!"
…
In sharp contrast to the laughter here is the headquarters of the Northern Sailing Club in Frost Iron City.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the headquarters building was depressing and dreary, as if someone had died, and everyone's face looked extremely ugly.
"How...why is this happening?"
"We are not undercover!"
Of course, they saw all the news on the Internet.
With the ability of the Mechanical Clan, it is very easy to block this information. As long as an order is given, all platforms will immediately ban discussions about the Masked Monster and the Northern Seas, and no platform dares to object.
But the mechanical clan did not do that. It was as if they were deliberately allowing the online discussion to intensify, just to see what the outside world would eventually come up with.
"It's over, it's over now!"
Everyone's face was pale and as white as paper, as if they had been dead for a long time.
Every one of those topics about being "undercover" hit them hard in the chest, making it hard for them to breathe and almost suffocate.
Even if they mobilized a large number of water army accounts and even went so far as to scold themselves on major platforms, they could not reverse the current trend of public opinion.
"This shouldn't be the case..."
These people have never thought that if the club is really undercover, wouldn't their crazy discussion push the club into the abyss of death? How can there be such a famous undercover?
As things have developed to this point, the ministers of several departments have personally intervened.
"You are all wrong. The Northern Sailing Club is not an undercover agency. They have sincerely surrendered to the Mechanical Clan!" A minister anxiously refuted online, controlling a large number of accounts, sweating profusely, and as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
However, soon after his message was released, it was met with a lot of refutations.
"Bullshit! How can you slander the Sailing Club like this?"
"They endured humiliation and abuse. It would have been fine if they didn't know before, but now they know everything. There are actually people like you who spread rumors!"
Words filled with indignation appeared below his message.
The minister was in tears and almost dumbfounded after hearing these righteous words.
He hastily explained: "Listen to me, I am from the Northern Sailing Club. My real name can be found in the encyclopedia. I am the director of the club's branch in Baihua City..."
Less than a minute after the message was sent out, it was rebuked by more than ten people.
"It's so disgusting! People like you are the most disgusting!"
"What good will it do you to pretend to be Minister Wu and ruin his reputation?"
"Did you receive money?"
"Who sent you?"
Countless accusations, insults, and questions instantly drowned out the news.
After a while, the online platform even marked the message and account:
[This account is suspected of spreading false information, please be careful to distinguish]
“It’s fake!”
When they saw the platform’s label, everyone cursed even more fiercely.
After seeing the news, the minister surnamed Wu looked dazed and didn't know what to say this time.
"how so……"
He never thought that one day, there would be so many people supporting him.
He never thought that these words of support would make him feel so uncomfortable that he would want to cry but could not even cry, and even want to die.
